Selected poems, 1975-2000 / Lauris Edmond ; edited by K.O. Arvidson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index.

Introduction -- Moonshine Valley -- Waterfall -- August, Ohakune -- Before a Funeral -- Late Starling -- Scar Tissue -- Piano Practice -- Sunday Night -- Sunday Morning -- Rain -- Epigraph -- Time of Silence (originally Tomorrow) -- The Pear Tree -- 3 a.m -- Sonnet of Recognition -- The Third Person -- Rodin Sculptures -- Eden Cultivated -- All Possession Is Theft -- Night Piece -- Minas -- Katherine -- Cicadas -- Round Oriental Bay -- Morning in Christchurch -- Greek Antiquities: First Floor -- Sonnet for the Unsung -- A Fashionable Shade -- The Distaff Line -- The Frontier -- The Beech Tree -- After Chagall -- Learning to Ride -- Latter Day Lysistrata -- Reading a Poem by Elizabeth Jennings -- Applied Astronomy -- Epitaph -- Another Christmas Morning -- Modern Times -- Love Poem -- Image for Stephanie -- The Names -- Wellington Letter (1980) -- Prague 1977 -- Ghosts I -- Ghosts II -- Easter Saturday in Menton -- Catching It -- Femme agee -- Foreigner -- In the Chemin Fleuri -- One Way -- Jardin des Colombieres -- Going to Moscow -- At Delphi -- At the Museum of Modern Art -- Word -- Demande de Midi -- The Condition -- The Mountain -- Signs -- Akatarawa Cemetery -- Red Nightgown -- The Deal -- Those Roses -- Epiphany -- Camping -- On the Te Awamutu Road -- Girls -- The Circumstance -- The National Poetry Series: Michael Ryan -- Roly's Poem -- Composition with Window and Bulldozer -- Agricole -- The Gift -- Driving from the Airport -- The Chair -- The Henri Rousseau Style -- The Telephone May Ring at Any Moment -- At Greenmeadows -- Enter a Messenger -- September -- High Court Report -- Tristesse d'animal -- I cannot chronicle our love -- The Independent Outlook -- Playing House -- From the South -- Rain in the Hills -- The Outside Room -- The Noh Plays -- The Lecture -- Cows -- On the Road to Ballarat -- O.E. -- The Ghost Moth -- Exodus -- The Sums -- Tempo -- In the Grain -- Hymns Ancient and Modern -- Mortimer -- A Reckoning -- Photograph -- Winter Morning -- Epithalamion -- Coming Through -- Dunedin in July -- Purple Irises -- The Invasion -- The Written Word -- Going to the Grampians -- At Bywell -- Summer near the Arctic Circle -- Train Song -- Directions -- Commonwealth Poetry Tour -- Driving through the Gorge -- City Lights -- The Real Estate -- Doubletake -- Prayer to Cydippe, Priestess to Hera -- The Hour -- By Appointment -- Sober Truth -- September in Huntly -- Late Dinner -- The Night Burns with a White Fire -- The Czech Girl -- Road Works -- Really -- Family Group -- The Fourth of July -- Ward's Island, Lake Ontario -- Visiting Worser Bay School on Sunday Morning -- Breakdown -- Biography -- The Heap -- The Task -- Illness -- Pas de Deux -- Dog -- Writing on the Wall -- Dialogue -- Academic Honours -- Pohutukawa -- Lake Idyll -- Subliminal -- The Wheel Turns -- January -- In Harbour -- The Active Voice -- Look Now -- City Lives -- Outside the Public Library -- Wax-eye -- Owhiro Bay in July -- Town Belt -- In Residence -- This Instant -- One Person Dialogue -- At Grass Street -- Summer, Golden Bay -- November -- Discovery -- Going North -- Talking to Friends -- In Position -- Body Language -- Flying Is a Violent Act -- Taking Down Christmas Decorations -- Autumn in Canada -- Hymn to the Body -- The Heat of Summer -- Take One -- The Wife -- The Husband -- Local Knowledge -- The Pace of Change -- One to One -- Marriage -- Spring Afternoon, Dunedin -- Lake Tutira -- A Matter of Timing -- Bronze in a Town Square -- The Arrival -- Tree Surgeon -- Pilgrimage -- Interlude in Zambia -- Square Dance -- Cucumber: A Short Essay -- Lunch in the City -- Looking like Veronica -- Sixteen -- Re-located -- Being There -- This Year 1000 Americans Will Live to Be Over 100 -- 'I saw this pretty dark girl' -- Confessions -- The Subject in Hand -- 'Some conversations continue' -- Insomniac -- Evening in April -- The Captive -- Small Town -- Afternoon at Akatarawa -- The Eighth Decade -- Late Song -- Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.

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